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MGRA wrote:

OSPREYSAINT wrote:

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Sunny Saint wrote:

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Sunny Saint wrote: I think that we will get our arses handed back to us by Everton this evening. I just hope that it’s not a cricket score that will cause the team to lose their momentum. As much as I want the Saints to win, I believe a loss tonight may be the kind of grounding that the new man will need. It’s just a shame that NC doesn’t get some much needed grounding (Preferably with a couple of thousand volts). COYR's - UTS :-)

Does your name come from your naturally sunny disposition? It's GREAT to have you on board.

I live in Israel, part of the 'Israeli Saints Fans group'. The sun is nearly always shining here. Still not sure why NC is constantly credited with saving the Saints, when that was clearly Markus. NC was merely appointed by Markus as the guardian of his legacy. His appointment, like that of the managers is in no way permanent or set-in-stone. Managers and coaches come and go, we all expect it, as we also expect sudden and sometimes drastic changes. However, it is also generally expected that such occurrences are conducted with a little more decorum and with as negative an impact as possible. Believe me when I tell you, that even out here it knocked every (not just football) sporting story off of the headlines and was slammed by all sections. Nigel, was rocketed from relative obscurity to National (now global) recognition when he joined the Saints. He will have also been rewarded with a very nice settlement package, that will sit nicely under his mattress when he is quickly appointed by another club. We are still here and have a voice, and we can also lobby very effectively with our feet if needed. Thus, it is important that NC is very aware of our displeasure, whilst at the same time letting the new Manager know that our united voice is his 12 man on the pitch, our colours do not run and the when we bleed, we bleed Red &amp; White. Shalom

There seems to be quite a widespread perception that Markus would have been dismayed by Nicola's actions since the former's untimely death. I don't think that at all. Markus was seen as this kindly, avuncular figure who wouldn't have harmed a fly. And maybe to a certain extent this was true. But equally, this was precisely why he had such a close relationship with Nicola and why he trusted him so much - because he needed Nicola to 'get stuff done' on his behalf and enforce tough decisions when they were in his interest. Markus knew exactly the kind of person Nicola was and I think he had a huge admiration for the fact he'd make himself unpopular in order to get results.

Do tell where you got your inside information on Markus Liebherr's thought processes?
Like many posters on here it seems to me that what you're doing is whistling in the dark.
Cortese is an arrogant, incompetent idiot. This is clear to most football fans and pundits around the country, if not to those Saints fans who mistake loyalty to the club they love with blind loyalty to the chairman who is leading it to disaster.

Call him what you like but you can't call him incompetent. He's taken us from the brink of extinction on minus 10 in league 1 to the Premier League in three years. That's not incompetence - that's excellent management, albeit management done in a way that may have ruffled feathers.

Markus had an enormous amount of affection for Nicola and theirs was a relationship that went beyond business. The way it's talked about with all the gold watches Markus bestowed on Nicola it seems absolutely inescapable that Nicola did something pretty amazing for Markus, and Markus could have been in no doubt about the range of Nicola's business talents (shrewdness, efficiency, ruthlessness) which he possessed in order to achieve it. I think Markus must have felt he owed him big time, because he effectively bought SFC for him as a reward.

Good, sensible, articulate post.
( Probably the same won't be said about mine! :-) )

In any other walk of life, Cortese would be seen as successful! Corteses does not seek publicity - he does not have an ego - he is confident in his own ability.

It's the media who stir it up and it is the media that encourage it via TV, Newspapers and the internet! Ex players/managers with no idea about running a football club or a business, sit on their Gold, Jewelled encrusted Thrones pontificating! (Either because of envy or because they don't get free tickets anymore!!!)

I, for one, am looking forward to seeing a new modern Coach implement his ideas and strategies to the betterment of SFC long term.

Thanks GIV that says it better than I could, but how do you get people like MGRA and Co. to understand it!

The NC fan club is hilarious... You do not have to make me understand what he is good at. NC is successful in so far that he appears to have singlehandedly hijacked a football club and brainwashed a certain minority of supporters. Everyone is missing the blindingly obvious, and that is he clearly only has one thing on this mind, and that is getting the maximum return for when the club is sold next season ( if we stay up ). How anyone can think he has the slightest interest in the club and its fans is beyond me. He has proven time and time again that he does not give a stuff and is only interested in his own agenda. I still think it will actually work out well in the end and his reign when it ends will be regarded as beneficial on balance, but then there will be some very hard work for new owners to restore the reputation of the club. I think people are underestimating just how many supporters may abandon the stadium, not just tonight. Thats how I see it.

You are making a habit of contradicting yourself mid-post. Like you are having a mini debate with yourself.. not one of your best posts, in fact you are starting to bore the pants off me.

COYR, MA and NCs RaW Army!!"

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